After overcoming some challenging visa problems, Anna arrived in New York on January 24, 2013, and immediately joined the other 13 young adults representing all divisions and attached fields of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Six feet beat the streets of Pretoria, South Africa. Their pace is brisk and purposeful, driven by a sense of urgency. They dodge traffic, navigate crowds, and climb endless flights of stairs in the city’s towering apartment buildings. Then suddenly, they stop.

During the school year the time I spent reading the Bible had showed me that God is a very personal God. I didn’t understand some classes, but after I prayed about it, God showed me how to understand it.